OMG, Hi! is a weekly podcast with George Lopez featuring surprise celebrity guests, listener call-ins, stories of George’s haunted house, hot takes, and more.
George’s longtime acquaintance and fellow comedian Willie Barcena joins the show! Together with Gil and Grant, they get into everything from hitting an apple pipe with Cheech and Chong, to what it’s like to try – and fail – to get passed at the World Famous Comedy Store, as well as great stories from Willie’s 12(!) appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Plus, what job would Willie have if he wasn’t a comedian? Find out this and more on today’s OMG HI!
Raucous, irreverent, and never politically correct, Willie Barcena is one of the sharpest minds in comedy. His universal material spans family, religion, race, sex, politics, and whatever else you aren’t supposed to discuss. His twelve tonight show appearances are among the most frequent for any comedian and by far the most for any Latino comedian.
A 20-year comedy veteran and road warrior, Willie brings laughs and insights worldwide, including many shows for the troops stationed abroad. he has appeared on many tv shows including: “Moesha,” “The Wayans Brothers,” and he was chosen to be the host of the popular si-tv production “Latino Laugh Festival – the show.” his one-hour comedy central special received rave reviews, and he followed that up with a showtime special, and his latest special, now on Netflix, shows willie is just getting better. Look out for Willie’s next special, coming soon, and check him out on facebook and instagram to see new material and stay up on all things Willie.
Lopez has been featured in four HBO specials, The Wall in August 2017, It’s Not Me, It’s You in 2012, GRAMMY-nominated Best Comedy Album Tall, Dark and Chicano in 2009, and America’s Mexican in 2007. Lopez also performed as part of HBO and TBS’s Comic Relief 2006. His acclaimed comedy concert, Why You Crying?, debuted on Showtime in 2004. He released his third standup CD, El Mas Chingon, in 2006, which also earned Lopez a GRAMMY nomination in the category of Best Comedy Album. In 2004, he was nominated for a GRAMMY in the same category for his CD Team Leader.
In 2006, Lopez received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In addition, Time named him one of the 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America, and the Harris Poll named him one of the Top Ten Favorite Television Personalities. He also starred in Lopez on TV Land. Produced by Lopez, the series explored how he struggled between his two worlds and crises that are often of his own making.
The half-hour single-camera serialized comedy aired for two seasons. Lopez Tonight, a late-night television talk show on TBS also ran for two seasons. It represented Lopez’s return to series television after co-creating, writing, producing, and starring in Warner Bros. Television’s groundbreaking hit sitcom George Lopez, which ran for six seasons on ABC.
George Lopez remains a hit with viewers in syndication on both broadcast stations and cable’s Nick at Nite, ranking as one of the top-rated shows on the network and among the top five comedies and top 20 weekly programs in syndication.
